Week 12: Environmental Problems Flashcards

1
Q

How does George Monbiot describe the feeling he felt upon returning home from his 6 year expedition in the tropics as an investigative journalist?

A

Ecologically bored

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What does Monbiot claim has been the dominant aim of industrialized societies?

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  • To know what comes next
  • To conquer uncertainty

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3
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What is the word/concept that Monbiot is obssessed with, and what does it mean?

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“Rewilding”:

The mass restoration of ecosystems

The rewilding of human life

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4
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What example of species reintroduction does Monbiot use?

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Re-introduction of Wolves into Yellowstone National Park in 1995

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5
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What was significant about the re-introduction of the Wolves into Yellowstone? What effects did it have on the ecosystem?

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  • Changed the behavior of the deer
  • Caused trees to grow much bigger, and grow in new areas. Berries became more plentiful
  • Birds, Beavers, Bears returned
  • The rivers changed, from the stabilization of the banks from the growing vegetation.
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6
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How much farmland will be vacated in Europe between 2000 and 2030?

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30 Million hectares (the size of Poland)

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7
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What does Monbiot suggested be re-introduced or implemented into the ecosystems of Europe?

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Megafauna species (large or giant animals)

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8
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What is Paleoecology?

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The study of past ecosystems

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9
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How much of the previously forested part of the US have started to “reforest”?

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Two-thirds

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10
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200 years ago, Thomas Malthus claimed that population growth occurred ______, and food production increases _________

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Population Growth: Geometrically

Food Production: Arithmetically

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11
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How does Stephen J. Scanlan see food scarcity?

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He sees it as a myth

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12
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This view says that modern values and activities contribute to the pollution fo our natural surroundings and over-harvesting of our resources

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Structural Functionalism

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13
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What is the “Cornucopian” view of nature?

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That nature exists as an endless plethora and storehouse of resources that exist only for use by humans

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14
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A cultural or subcultural commitment to the idea that economic growth is good in of itself, whatever it’s social effects

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Growth Ethic

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15
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Belief in the primary importance of the individual and the need to protect individual liberty and choice against collective social or governmental restriction

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Individualism

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16
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This viewpoint argues the problem isn’t a lack of resources, but problems with distribution

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Conflict Theory

17
Q

A social movement linking the exploitation of marginalized groups within society and the degradation of nature in Western values

Links the destruction of the environment and patriarchal domination of the political and corporate world

A

Ecofeminism; coined by Françoise d’Eaubonne

18
Q

The creation of policies that address climate change, and the systems that create it and perpetuate inequality

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Climate Justice